Christmas Eve Tradition

I love Christmas!! :) And Christmas Eve is great too because it means I can stay up late and eat lots of yummy goodies and watch the best Christmas movie ever...ELF.

If you haven't seen it, it should become your newest Christmas Eve tradition! :) That and Chinese food...yum!

You Can't Have it Both Ways

I really tried to leave this whole "war on Christmas" thing alone but sorry...I just can't do it. :) I just have a question first...why do Christians always have to find something to fight or "war" about? It seems strangely separated from the character of Christ.

Ok, on to my thoughts on this whole holiday issue. Oh wow...I'm about to stand up for something the President did...

Happy Holidays! Give the guy a break! A couple of things. 1) We can't complain that much, he did use Scripture in his "holiday" card. 2) We are a country that respects religious freedom and our country's leader must respect that as well. This time of year celebrates Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanza, New Year and probably others I don't even know about...count them...1, 2, 3, 4...at least 4 holidays represented in just 2 months time. I don't think this means Christmas is even remotely threatened.

Retail...we simply cannot have it both ways. We can't complain about the Christmas commercialism and then complain when companies start using "holiday" terminology instead of Christmas terminology. Christ does not equal retail. Who cares what the signs on the stores say because according to what we usually say, "Christmas isn't about all that...."

So be happy, maybe now we can start to separate the birthday of Jesus from all that happens in the retail world.

By the way, just because Bill O'Reily suggests that Christmas is threatened with extinction, doesn't make it true.

Matt and I caught Death Cab at the Crystal Ballroom this week and it was such a good concert. To all you wanna-be-rock-stars out there...the great thing about bands like this is that they don't try to hard to "look the part." You can tell they're regular guys who just really enjoy playing their music. I've got these friends who are in a band. I know they're not that cool. They're normal, just like everybody else. It just makes me laugh when I see them trying to look like the image of a rock star. I can appreciate unprentious rock bands who know it's about the music and that's about it.

If you've never listened to Death Cab for Cutie, you have to start! You can listen to some of their songs online at...

http://www.deathcabforcutie.com/